| Henry Parmele - Freemasonry - 1823 - 122 pages
...because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern. " Then ;hall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shal... | |
| English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...another in its place. No. Whenever ' the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl broken, or the pitcher broken^ at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.' " " She did not survive many days... | |
| Theology - 1822 - 500 pages
...said of us, Eccl. xii. 6. " The silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern;" then will it be too late for reflection, repentance, and a turning to the Lord : in the place where the... | |
| James Ellice - 1824 - 92 pages
...soul : Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit unto God that gave it. The spirit of man perisheth not as the body.... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1824 - 654 pages
...the power of the grave ? Ps. Ixxxix. And to speak the language of Solomon, Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern : that is to say the back-bone, where marrow is as white as silver, be loosed... | |
| Joseph Benson - Methodist Church - 1824 - 216 pages
...powers, and describes the chief organs employed in the production and the circulation of the blood. " Or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." * The wonderful provision made for preparing and circulating the vital fluid, is at death entirely... | |
| Sunday schools - 1824 - 412 pages
...signify the termination of the functions of the brain : " In that very day his thoughts perish." — " Or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." This expression refers to the circulation of the blood ; which was not unknown to the ancients, though... | |
| J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pages
...overstretch'd, No longer can with fresh recruit, supply Th' exhausted spirits. 7 Gasping Nature sighs be broken, ^ or the pitcher be broken at the fountain,^ or the that by the Silver Cord is meant the Spinal Marrow, with the various nerves thence derived, whose ramifications,... | |
| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. 6 Or ever the silver cord be t rlowU— Heb. " The beatenj ;" re. hiring to tbe...35. O Cod, ttrritle a«lo/ (or fr«m) ItfMeanine, 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto God who gave... | |
| James Hervey - Dialogues, English - 1825 - 424 pages
...absolutely inexplicable by tlie most acute austomiet ! t Solomon makes use of this similitude, ' Or ever the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.' The two ventricles of the heart, replenished with blood, are fitly represented by a cistern, and the... | |
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